Shrink from intimate
We shrink from intimate because we sense it is of the holy. It is other. Do we remember that holy is other?
:- Doug.
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A sadness as children
A sadness not to break us
but to hold us
how we want to be held
or were once held
as children
made by it
not unmade
:- Doug.
lost as you
The soul and the spirit, yes
Who and what and more awaken?
They play, they are not lost as you
:- Doug.
in her lap, tenderly
Circumference holds the world in her lap, tenderly, loosely, letting go—out. It is her privilege to touch all, hold all, release all.
:- Doug.
Magic carpet: arise!
Magic carpet: arise!
Arouse my senses
Numberless!
Music about
Wonderful voices
Fragrances to carry across
Under-sight into prime worlds!
:- Doug.
Possibilitized
The more open we are one with the other, the more we will be rewarded. Our reward? Humanity: discovered; made possible. I wanted to call it possibili-tized.
:- Doug.
Pain swims away
To friend is not to be boon only. Death comes. Friction lasts. Pain swims away to surface again in the midst of play. Many are friendship’s endings, many its beginnings—if it were otherwise, the world would have told you—its forests and streams and skies. Transforming is its watchword. Transforming will not always please us. We will need separation. We will need ennui. We will need to allow us our needs. We will need, finally, to get up and move. Some talk needs a walk. Ask Rumi.
:- Doug.
Lifted chins
We belittle considering those things not purely rational, forgetting that human values are our highest and best, that aspirations and lifted chins pull us along. The rational serves life. The wheel serves not the engine nor the horses, but the driver whose face is set to sun or star.
:- Doug.
Outpouring?
Why do we “offer” prayers? Even, especially, by those of us of differing divinities? There seems to be a need. . . of what? Outpouring?
:- Doug.
Pilgrimage
Ought we, one time, approach a conversation as a pilgrimage? Is there a value in considering the possibility? How would we prepare?
:- Doug.
Send-Receive ever
In conversation we continually send-receive. It must somehow be of the essence.
:- Doug.
Concentric circles:
Concentric circles:
Inner: Speech: Literary, Orality
Middle: Non-verbal behaviors, coded
Outer: Physical actions, objects
Outside: Hidden: ground; Non-physical; Beyond;
Between; “Soul;” “Spirit;” “Numinous”
:- Doug.
She will resound
She will resound
He will resound
When I come
Making a sound
Who among us
Will know what it means
To hear?
:- Doug.
Little critters in the shadows
We grow in conversation not only by adding my ideas to yours, or mixing them into a new brew, but as well by juxtaposing and bouncing and bumping and . . . . So we must attend the little critters hiding in the shadows.
:- Doug.
